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A roadblock in utilizing InGaAs for scaled-down electronic devices is its anomalous dopant diffusion behavior; specifically, existing models are not able to explain available experimental data on beryllium diffusion consistently. In this…
Enthalpies of formation of gallium interstitials and all the other native point defects in gallium arsenide are calculated using the same well-converged \emph{ab initio} techniques. Using these results, equilibrium concentrations of these…
The control over the structural homogeneity is of paramount importance for ternary nitride compounds - the second most important semiconducting material-class after Si, due to its unrivalled applicability in optoelectronics, and high…
We present an ab initio study of dopant-dopant interactions in beryllium-doped InGaAs. We consider defect formation energies of various interstitial and substitutional defects and their combinations. We find that all…
The analytical solutions of the equations describing impurity diffusion due to migration of nonequilibrium impurity interstitials were obtained for the impurity redistribution during ion implantation at elevated temperatures and for…
First-principles density functional simulations were employed to investigate the geometries, electrical properties, and hyperfine structures of various beryllium-doped diamond configurations, including interstitial (Be$_i$), substitutional…
The control over impurities like hydrogen and oxygen is of key importance in nitride-based semiconducting due to their unrivaled applicability in optoelectronics and high power/high frequency electronics. Therefore, it is desirable to…
Using first principles electronic structure calculations we screen nine elements for their potential to retard oxygen diffusion through poly-crystalline Pt (p-Pt) films. We determine that O diffuses preferentially as interstitial along Pt…
The dispersive behavior of materials with atomic charge numbers varing from $Z = 4$ (beryllium, Be) to $Z = 82$ (lead, Pb) was investigated experimentally and theoretically at $\gamma$-ray energies up to 2 MeV. The experiment was performed…
The status of the literature is reviewed for thermophysical properties of pure polycrystalline solid and liquid beryllium which constitute input for the modelling of intense plasma-surface interaction phenomena that are important for fusion…
We have determined Be abundances in 50 F and G dwarfs in the mass range of 0.9 $\leq$ M$_\odot$ $\leq$ 1.1 as determined by Lambert & Reddy. The effective temperatures are 5600 to 6400 K and metallicities from $-$0.65 to +0.11. The spectra…
A two stream model of boron diffusion in silicon has been developed. The model is intended for simulation of transient enhanced diffusion including redistribution of ion-implanted boron during low temperature annealing. The following…
A theoretical investigation of the microscopic mechanisms provided the transient enhanced diffusion of boron atoms during rapid thermal annealing of silicon substrates doped by high fluence ion implantation was carried out. To compare the…
We have coupled electron microscopy and energy dispersive spectroscopy experiments with \textit{ab-initio} modeling to study the solubility and diffusion of Au in Bi$_2$Te$_3$. We found that thermal annealing of Au films results in Au…
In this work, we present conception and study of gallium nitride (GaN) nanostructures on a gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrate with (111)A orientation. The nanostructures were designed by GaN droplet epitaxy and studied in-situ by X-ray…
The temperature-dependent diffusion coefficients of interstitial helium atom in $\alpha$-Ti are predicted using the transition state theory. The microscopic parameters in the pre-factor and activation energy of the impurity diffusion…
Beryllium (Be) alloys are indispensable in cutting-edge applications due to their unique advantages. However, the scientific understanding about their structure and property is deficient, which greatly restricts their applications within a…
Laser nitriding represents a versatile approach for tailoring the surface properties of metals. Up to now, its effect on the superconducting response of niobium nitrides remains largely unexplored. In this work, the nitriding process of…
Demixing of binary fluids subjected to slow temperature ramps shows repeated waves of nucleation which arise as a consequence of the competition between generation of supersaturation by the temperature ramp and relaxation of supersaturation…
In this article, the results of investigation of processes occurring during the molecular-beam deposition of germanium layers on Si$_3$N$_4$ dielectric substrates within a wide range of the Ge film growth temperatures (30 to 600{\deg}C) are…